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title: He could scarcely wait to see whether King Aegeus would recognize hi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He could scarcely wait to see whether King Aegeus would recognize him, so eager was he to throw himself into his arms. Who acts: Theseus, King. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 19

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He could scarcely wait to see whether King Aegeus would recognize him, so eager was he to throw himself into his arms.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, King · **What happens:** wait, see, recognize, be, throw · **To what, where:** Theseus, arms

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:4:19
# text = He could scarcely wait to see whether King Aegeus would recognize him, so eager was he to throw himself into his arms.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | could | Theseus |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **recognize** | would | King | Theseus |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Theseus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* | Theseus |  |  |  | into Theseus's arms *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into arm=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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